Title: Optimum use of groundwater to plan new cropping pattern for Sinnar, MS, India

Authors: Jayantilal N. Patel; Smita Varade

Addresses: S.V. National Institute of Technology, Ichchhanath Surat – 395007, Gujarat, India ' S.V. National Institute of Technology, Ichchhanath Surat – 395007, Gujarat, India

Abstract: In today's world conservation, management of water resources and land are major concerns. The paper presents an application of LINGO software and particle swarm optimisation (PSO) algorithm to determine optimal cropping pattern for Sinnar, MS, India. The optimisation model is developed and solved using LINGO and PSO for maximisation of net benefits. In existing cropping pattern net benefit are 1,101.15 million Rs. whereas obtained by LINGO and PSO are 1,461.2 million Rs. and 1,466.3 million Rs. respectively. Net benefits obtained using PSO are better than LINGO. Hence, cropping pattern obtained from PSO is suggested as proposed cropping pattern for study area.

Keywords: optimisation; LINGO; particle swarm optimisation; PSO; optimal cropping pattern; India.

DOI: 10.1504/IJHST.2020.106480

International Journal of Hydrology Science and Technology, 2020 Vol.10 No.2, pp.123 - 134

Received: 09 Jun 2017
Accepted: 02 Jun 2018
Published online: 09 Apr 2020 *

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